|
Vajda
Vajda is a Hungarian language surname. It is derived from Proto-Slavic *vojevoda. In medieval times, vajda was the equivalent of voivode, meaning a "war-leader" or "war-lord". The name may refer to: * Anna Vajda (born 1984), Hungarian basketball player *Árpád Vajda (1896–1967), Hungarian chess player *Attila Vajda (born 1983), Hungarian athlete *Edward Vajda (born 1958), American linguist *Ernest Vajda (1886–1954), Hungarian actor * Géza Vajda (born 1950), Hungarian orienteer *Gregory Vajda (born 1973), Hungarian musician * György Mihály Vajda (born 1935), Hungarian philosopher *János Vajda (poet) (1827–1897), Hungarian poet * János Vajda (composer) (born 1949), Hungarian composer *Jaroslav Vajda (1919–2008), American hymn composer *Ladislao Vajda (1906–1965), Hungarian film director *Ladislaus Vajda (1878–1933), Hungarian screenwriter *Lajos Vajda (1908–1941), Hungarian painter *Levente Vajda (born 1981), Romanian chess grandmaster *Marián Vajda (born 1965), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lajos Vajda
Lajos Vajda ( Hungarian: Vajda Lajos; 1908, Zalaegerszeg – 1941, Budakeszi) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. From 1927 to 1930 he was a student of István Csók at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Vajda stayed in Paris between 1930 and 1934 and, in addition to the most recent trends in French painting, he also got acquainted with the outstanding works of the Russian Realist film. This prompted him to create his dramatic photo-montages of the great cataclysms of mankind, war, hunger, armed violence and abject misery. From 1934 onwards, he collected folk art motifs in Szentendre and Szigetmonostor. In his style, folk art and Orthodox Christian, Roman Catholic and Jewish symbols were combined with abstract and surrealistic elements. His last abstract surrealistic drawings foreshadow the horrors of World War II. He died of tuberculosis in 1941. Chronology *1908 Lajos Vajda was born into a Jewish family on 6 August 1908 in the town of Zalaegerszeg, Hungary. His father, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marián Vajda
Marián Vajda (; born 24 March 1965) is a Slovak professional tennis coach and former player. He is the former head coach of Novak Djokovic, coaching Djokovic almost his entire professional career, winning 85 titles together (out of the 92 won by Djokovic). Vajda is the most successful coach in the history of tennis in terms of Grand Slam titles winning 20 Grand Slam trophies with Novak Djokovic. Career Vajda was born in Považská Bystrica. He was a member of the Olympic Team of Czechoslovakia, and in 1992 he competed in the Olympic Games of Barcelona, being eliminated in the first round by Gilad Bloom. He reached the third round of the 1991 French Open, won two singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 34 in September 1987. Vajda is a former captain of the Slovakia Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams. Vajda was the coach of Karol Kučera from 2001 to 2005. Vajda has been the coach of Novak Djokovic from 2006 until 2017, then again from 2018 to 2022. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Vajda
Gregory Vajda (born Gergely Vajda; August 13, 1973) is a Hungarian clarinetist, composer and conductor. Early life and education He was born in Budapest in 1973 to bassoonist József Vajda (1947-2016) and operatic soprano Veronika Kincses. Vajda studied conducting at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music under Professor Ervin Lukács. He was also a conducting and composition pupil of well-known composer and conductor, Péter Eötvös. Career Conducting Hailed as a "young titan" by the Montreal Gazette after conducting the Montreal Symphony in Bartok’s Bluebeard's Castle and Schoenberg's Erwartung, Gregory Vajda has fast become one of the most sought-after conductors on the international scene. Reflecting his growing presence and demand in North America, he has been appointed in 2011 the sixth music director of the Huntsville Symphony. After concluding his 3-year tenure as Principal Conductor he was named Principal Guest Conductor of the Hungarian Radio Symphony (MR Symphony) in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levente Vajda
Levente Vajda (born 13 February 1981) is a Romanian chess grandmaster, earning his title in 2001. Biography From an early age, Vajda was a permanent representative of Romania at the World Youth Chess Championships. In 1993, in Bratislava, he won bronze medal in the under-12 age group; a year later, he repeated this success in Szeged in the under-14 age group. In 1997, in Yerevan Levente Vajda won gold medal in under-16 age group, and he won another bronze medal in 1998 in Oropesa del Mar in the under-18 age group. In 1994, in Paris, he ranked second in the European Youth Rapid Chess Championship. From the late 1990s, he was one of the leading Romanian chess players. He has won five individual Romanian Chess Championships medals: four silver (1998, 2002, 2004, 2012) and bronze (2003). Vajda has achieved many successes at international chess tournaments, including winning or sharing first place eleven times in cyclical Grandmaster tournaments ''First Saturday'' in Budapest (in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaroslav Vajda
Jaroslav Vajda (April 28, 1919 – May 10, 2008) was an American hymnist. Vajda was born to a Lutheran pastor of Slovak descent in Lorain, Ohio, where his father, Rev. John Vajda, was a pastor. Vajda's father served parishes in Emporia, Virginia, Racine, Wisconsin, and finally, from 1926 until his retirement, in East Chicago, Indiana at Holy Trinity Slovak Lutheran Church. Vajda's father and mother (Mary Gecy) were both originally from Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Jaroslav had two brothers, Ludovit and Edward, both pastors, now deceased. Vajda himself pastored parishes in Cranesville, Pennsylvania (1945–1949), Alexandria, Indiana (1949–1953), Tarentum, Pennsylvania (1953–1963), and St. Louis, Missouri (1963–1976). Vajda received musical training in childhood and began translating classical Slovak poetry at age 15, when three delegates from the cultural institute of Slovakia visited his father's home and left a box of books of Slovak literature. Vajda did not write his first h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attila Vajda
Attila Vajda (born 17 March 1983) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the early 2000s. Competing in three Summer Olympics (04, 08, 12) he has won two medals in the C-1 1000 m event with a gold in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Vajda was a European junior champion in 2000, winning the Canadian canoe C-2 1000 m title with Démász-Szeged team-mate Márton Joób in Boulogne, France. In 2002 the pair came second at the European under-23 championships in Zagreb, Croatia in the same event. Hungarian coach Zoltán Angyal was confident of Vajda's ability but took the decision not to give him his senior international debut in 2002 or 2003. In 2004, Angyal was still keeping his cards close to his chest. The Hungarian team did not take part in the early season international regattas: at the European Championships Hungary was represented in the C-1 races by Márton Joób and Sándor Malomsoki. Angyal then shocked his rival coaches by selecting Vajda as his "secret weapon" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szidonia Vajda
Szidónia Lázárné Vajda (née Vajda; born 20 January 1979) is a Romanian- Hungarian chess player with the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She won the women's Hungarian Chess Championship in 2004 and 2015. In 1995 she won the Under-16 girls' section of the European Youth Chess Championship. She played in the bronze medal-winning Romanian team in the 3rd Women's European Team Chess Championship in Batumi 1999 and played for Hungary in the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. In 2009, she won the 1st Teller Ede Memorial in Paks. She is the sister of GM Levente Vajda Levente Vajda (born 13 February 1981) is a Romanian chess grandmaster, earning his title in 2001. Biography From an early age, Vajda was a permanent representative of Romania at the World Youth Chess Championships. In 1993, in Bratislava, he won .... References External links *Szidonia Vajdachess games at 365Chess.com * 1979 births Living people C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladislao Vajda
Ladislao Vajda (born Weisz László; 18 August 1906, Budapest – 25 March 1965, Barcelona) was a Hungarian-Spanish film director who made films in Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Italy and West Germany. Biography He was born in Budapest, his father being an actor and screenwriter. Vajda started his career as film editor (even though he also worked as artistic designer and writer) for different directors, such as Billy Wilder and Henry Koster. Eventually, he undertook his first directorial effort in his native country, Hungary. Before World War II he became established in Italy, where he directed two movies: ''La zia smemorata'' (1940) and ' (1941). Finally, he moved to Spain, where he continued directing films. The first film from his Spanish period was ''Se vende un palacio'' ('' A Palace for Sale''), released in 1943. During the 1940s, Vajda directed several movies in Portugal, United Kingdom and, mainly, in Spain. However, he would reach his artistic peak in the 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Vajda
Steven Vajda (20 August 1901 – 10 December 1995) was a Hungarian mathematician who contributed to the development of mathematical programming and operational research. He was a member of a circle of researchers that included George Dantzig, Abraham Charnes, W.W. Cooper, William Orchard-Hays, Martin Beale and others. He worked and taught as an actuary and as a mathematician in operational research from 1925 to 1995. From 1939 until his death in 1995, he lived in the U.K. where he was a defence scientist with the Royal Naval Scientific Service, and a professor at Birmingham and Sussex Universities. He was a Companion of the Operational Research Society, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and a member of the Mathematical Association. He is the author or coauthor of at least a dozen books on mathematical programming, game theory, manpower planning and statistics and of many journal publications and conference papers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivi Vajda
Vivi Vajda is a Swedish palaeontologist. She is Professor and head of palaeobiology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Through the study of microscopic fossils such as pollen, plankton, algae, and fungi, Vajda's research focuses on past vegetation changes, plant communities, and mass extinctions. She has also contributed to the understanding of the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. She is a member of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund. Life and work Vajda earned her BSc at Lund University, Sweden in 1989 and stayed there to obtain her PhD in 1998. She was a professor at Lund University from 2005 to 2015. She is currently the principal investigator In many countries, the term principal investigator (PI) refers to the holder of an independent grant and the lead researcher for the grant project, usually in the sciences, such as a laboratory study or a clinical trial. The phrase is also often us ... of two research projects. Accolades * Årets geolog (Geol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Vajda
Ernest Vajda (born Ernő Vajda; 27 May 1886 in Komárno, Austria-Hungary, today Slovakia – 3 April 1954 in Woodland Hills, California) was a Hungarian actor, playwright, and novelist, but is more famous today for his screenplays. He co-wrote the screenplay for the film '' Smilin' Through'' (1932), based on the hit play by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin. Vajda also wrote the screenplay for the first film version of Rudolph Besier's ''The Barretts of Wimpole Street'' (1934). Partial filmography * '' The Unknown Tomorrow'' (1923) * ''The Crown of Lies'' (1926) * '' You Never Know Women'' (1926) original story * '' Service for Ladies'' (1927) original story "The Head Waiter" * ''The Woman on Trial'' (1927) * '' Manhattan Cocktail'' (1928) original story * ''A Night of Mystery'' (1928) * ''Manhattan Cowboy'' (1928) * ''The Love Parade'' (1929) * ''Monte Carlo'' (1930) * ''The Smiling Lieutenant'' (1931) * ''The Guardsman'' (1931) * '' Tonight or Never'' (1931) * '' Service for Ladies'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
János Vajda (poet)
János Vajda (7 May 1827 – 18 January 1897) was a Hungarian poet and journalist. His first poetry was published in '' Életképek'' in 1844. He was a member of the Kisfaludy Society The Kisfaludy Society (Hungarian: ''Kisfaludy Társaság'') was a literary society in Pest, founded in 1836 and named after Károly Kisfaludy, who had died in 1830. It held monthly meetings and was a major force in Hungarian literary life, givin ....Szinnyei, József: Magyar írók élete és munkái XIV. (Telgárti–Zsutai)'' Budapest. Hornyánszky. 1914. References External links * 1827 births 1897 deaths 19th-century Hungarian poets Hungarian male poets 19th-century Hungarian male writers {{Hungary-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
